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Some things just aren't meant to be understood

Has anybody ever been confused? Like they had no idea what was going on? And no matter how hard you tried to understand it, something just hit you and hit you good. And the most frustrating part about it was that you didn't even know what it was that you're confused about.

That's my definition of confusing.

So I'm not sure what this post is about, just because I don't know what I'm confused about. But I do know that I am confused. If anybody were to ask me what was wrong, or why so serious, I would not be able to answer them. Truly. I've never been very good at finding the right words to say to people when I'm trying to give them advice, or trying to answer a deep question, and it's upsetting. So, so upsetting. I feel like a failure every time I stop in the middle of a sentence trying to think of the right thing to say, while in the mean time, everything else I've said just floats away in the air, like it never existed.

So I suppose that this post wasn't really meant for any of you, it was more for me. Sometimes you just have to write about your feelings, even if you don't know what your feelings are, just to make you feel better. But it has helped. If you read this, give yourself a pat on the back, because I just realized that this post really was for me. But thank you for reading, and I hope you have a wonderful day!

Death by Duty

Ok, so in our ward, every national holiday, we put up American flags. (I'm sure most wards around here do it too) It is the young men's duty to post those flags in our ward. Through rain, wind, sleet, snow or hail the young men are expected to perform this task. If the ground was so iced over that you could skate on it like an ice rink, the young men are still expected to find a way to get that flag to stay upright. That's right. We are dedicated.

We are now rethinking our commitments.

Today, as many of you might know was Veteran's day! As you may also know, it's the middle of November. Snow has been falling here and there for a couple of weeks now. What is snow a sign of? That's right. The temperature has dropped enough to freeze the moisture. (A.K.A. It's freezing)

Now before I continue, let me just say one thing. I extremely, intensly, severely, with a firey passion, hate the cold. Hate snow. Hate everything that has to do with the frozen moisture. (Besides ice. Ice is cool)

So last night at about 8:00 I recieved a phone call from the 1st counsler in my quorum.
"Hey Trevor!" He says. "Guess what? Tomorrow is Veteran's day! Guess wh-"
I already knew what was coming.
"Flags." I said.
"Yep. 6:00 AM at Zack's house."
So here I come to Zack's house at 6:00 AM. It's dead dark outside. When I get to his house there's a car outside it. I get in and it's loaded with about 8 people. My assignment was Alpine Vista, so we go to the church, load up with our flags and rebar, and head out. By this time it's about 6:15. So we hop out of the car to start posting the flags, and I am just hit by a huge wave of pure coldness. Now I didn't notice this either because it was dark, or I was just to tired to notice, but the wind is huge! Like it always is in Lehi... Anyway, we're fighting against the wind up the street putting a flag at every house. It's so crazy cold outside right now that my fingers were white in the first 3 minutes. So about 10 minutes later I notice another funny thing that I should have noticed a while ago.
It's snowing.
That's just great. Snow + wind = one of the most uncomfortable situations ever. Ever. Anyway, by the time I get home I can't feel any part of my body, (yes, I was wearing a jacket. I'm not stupid) and it's just getting light. 6:50. Well, time to get ready for early morning seminary!

Don't get me wrong, I love teacher's quorum! I love young men's! I love all the war veterans who served our country! But sometimes times I dislike what we do in the quorum and as the young men of the ward. Such as this one experience.
Yes, I need to have a more optimistic attitude about the things we do together... Well, there's something I have time to work on!

Find the Strength

"Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that whispers, I'll try again tomorrow."
~Mary Anne Radmacher

I love this quote.

Many people would have to read this quote many times to find a deep meaning, while others look at it once, nod their head, and say, "what a great saying." But the people who really appreciate quotes like these are the ones that take action. Take action on what they know they can be better at. When I look at this quote, I see something that I have been struggling with for the past couple years. Something that I know that I have resolved many times to become better at, but never actually fully accomplished. The thing I'm talking about is self motivation.

It takes courage to motivate yourself to do something. It takes courage to say, "Yes. That is what I am going to do." Without anybody telling you it is required. Many times it will be required, and that alone takes much self-motivation. But it is when you aspire to do something on your own that people admire you. We call this setting goals. I know that I've set many goals this far in life, only to come short on a few of them. I was always angry at myself for not giving it my best effort. When you complete your goals is when you can say to yourself, "I've done it. I am the master of my fate."

I heard about an interesting study not too long ago. It was about students who went to Harvard University. A certain researcher went around and asked a few of the students there what they hoped to accomplish in life, or in other words, what their goals were. 84% of the students had no goals. 13% of the students had made goals, but hadn't written them down. Only 3% of the students that went to Harvard had made goals, and had written them down. About 10 years later the same researcher went back and found all of the students he surveyed. The results were astonishing. The 13% of the students that had goals and had written them down doubled the annual salary of the 84% of students that had no goals. Doubled. But here was the amazing part. The 3% of students that had written their goals down were making approximately ten times the annual salary of the 84% of students who had no goals. Ten times! Here is the reason that I think these students were the most successful ones.

When you make goals, you obviously try to accomplish them. But often you make too many goals that you are able to remember with all of the things happening in your life. If you write all of your goals down and put them somewhere where you see them often, you are reminded constantly of what you are trying to achieve.

So you may be asking yourself, "Well this is great about goals and everything, but what does this have to do with self-motivation?" Let me tell you by asking you a question. Why do you motivate yourself? What do you do it for? That's right. You motivate yourself to complete the personal goals you have set. Without your personal goals, what do you have to work for? What do you hope to achieve? Exactly. Nothing. So the point of this post is just to say, find the strength. Find the strength to 1) make your goals, 2) write them down and 3) achieve them. Achieve them through self-motivation. Find the strength. We can all do it. And I know that I need to work at it also. We will be so much more successful in life if we have something to work for, and we put in the effort to work for it. And if you don't finish one day, keep working at it.

"Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that whispers, I'll try again tomorrow."

Peter Pan

Hey, guess who's back! That's right, Trevor is! Wow it's been a while. Gosh, I've been Mr. Busy! Well, the biggest thing I got on here to post today is Peter Pan opens tonight! :D Excited? Yes! Everybody should come and see it, just because it's that great! Here's a video I made for the play, if you haven't already seen it.




I don't know how great it will show up on the blog cause it's a link from Facebook, but there it is! Hope you all come see it! :D

Here are some photos of me too. (If I'm without my hat, well, let's just say I was having troubles that dress rehearsal!)